\u201cCrying is how your body speaks when your mouth can\u2019t explain the pain you feel.\u201d<\/p>\n
The truth is that I am not much of a crier, especially at work.\u00a0 But I have to admit that this week I have cried several times.\u00a0 As excited as I am for my next phase of life, this week has been much harder than I ever anticipated.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing how close you grow to people when you work with them day in and day out for nine years.\u00a0 You see each other grow up.\u00a0 You see each other go through trials.\u00a0 You see each other\u2019s joys.\u00a0 You see each other overcome challenges. You see each other\u2019s successes.\u00a0 You celebrate the births and mourn the deaths together.\u00a0 You really do become like a family.\u00a0 And the fact is that often times you spend more hours with your coworkers than even your own family, so is it any wonder that the relationships you form at work are life changing?\u00a0 Those same things apply to the clients that you spend your time with.\u00a0 They too become life-long friends.\u00a0 And although I will still stay in contact with everyone, there is that part that knows that some things will never again be the same, and your heart hurts because of that.\u00a0 And that is why I decided that this week, it is okay for me to cry.\u00a0 This week it\u2019s okay for me to process those feelings of sadness and change.\u00a0 Normally I say to people \u201cbe strong, there is no need to cry because it is all going to be okay in the end\u201d, but the fact is that every now and then I think it is okay to have a good cry and let it all out, and so this week I won\u2019t feel bad for crying.\u00a0 Some people are truly worth crying over…<\/p>\n
The team I have been privileged to work with at MCG over the last nine years has by far been the most amazing group of people I have ever been surrounded by in my life.\u00a0 And it has been such an honor to have people of that caliber as a part of your life each day.\u00a0 They made getting up and coming to work each day an incredible experience.\u00a0 They made the tough times easier and the happy times more joyous.\u00a0 I can honestly say that I have been the luckiest CEO in the entire world and I would defend that to anyone that challenged it.\u00a0 The love and support my employees and clients have given me these last nine years has been truly humbling.\u00a0 And the expressions of love and support this week as I come to the end of my transitioning out as their leader has been such an amazing outpouring of kindness.\u00a0 It has truly been overwhelming and it has been more meaningful to me than I could ever put into words.\u00a0 Thank you to every one of you who has touched my life and changed me for the better.\u00a0 I love you more that you will ever know.<\/p>\n
And now I need to remember that I am not saying goodbye to anyone.\u00a0 I will still see and keep in touch with everyone.\u00a0 And although it may be a little bit different, perhaps it will be that much better because I will have more free time to focus on relationships with people instead of having to worry about so much paperwork.\u00a0 That sounds like a glorious thing to me.\u00a0 And so my focus will be on the amazing quote by Dr. Seuss:<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t cry because it\u2019s over, smile because it happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n I will definitely smile because it happened and I wouldn\u2019t trade a moment of it for the world.\u00a0 Best experience EVER!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cCrying is how your body speaks when your mouth can\u2019t explain the pain you feel.\u201d The truth is that I am not much of a crier, especially at work.\u00a0 But I have to admit that this week I have cried several times.\u00a0 As excited as I am for my next phase of life, this week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,83,82,35,81],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ceo","tag-experience","tag-goodbye","tag-love","tag-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}